TRIALS: Practicing on Ellsberg

Long before they were caught trying to bug
Democratic headquarters in Washington, the Watergate conspirators were
apparently getting plenty of practice at breaking and entering. During
the trial of Daniel Ellsberg last week, a memo from the Justice
Department was handed to U.S. District Judge William Matthew Byrne. It
disclosed that two of the convicted Watergate conspiratorsG. Gordon
Liddy and E. Howard Hunthad broken into the office of a psychiatrist
to obtain files dealing with Ellsberg. A grim-faced Byrne ordered the
document revealed to the defense. Then he told the prosecution that...